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Viewpoints and Perspectives (514) Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues (479) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2452) Digital Contact Tracing, Digital Proximity Tracing, Precision Public Health (148) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1575) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1727) Surveillance Systems (462) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1517) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (124) Theme Issue: Apps for COVID-19 (#Apps4Covid) (136)

Published on in Vol 22, No 12 (2020): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21572, first published .
COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps: Analysis of the Readability of Privacy Policies

COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps: Analysis of the Readability of Privacy Policies

COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps: Analysis of the Readability of Privacy Policies

Authors of this article:

Melvyn Zhang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Aloysius Chow1 Author Orcid Image ;   Helen Smith1 Author Orcid Image
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